Starting grid: Supercars trio to lead 2026 Bathurst 12 Hour field
Cam Waters' dominant Saturday at the Meguiar's Bathurst 12 Hour has been capped off by a scintillating run to the Allan Simonsen Pole Award, his first pole in Australia's International Enduro.
After topping final practice and provisional qualifying earlier today, Waters put on a masterclass to put the #222 Mercedes he'll share with Chaz Mostert and Thomas Randle on pole position.
Mercedes-AMG locked out the top three positions on the grid for the 12 Hour at the end of a pulsating Pirelli Pole Battle.
No one could touch the Scott Taylor Motorsport entry of Waters, who set the second-fastest pole lap in the history of the 12 Hour with a blistering 2:01.0790s.
The #222 will be joined by last year's pole-winning car on the front row, with Craft-Bamboo's Lucas Auer once again impressing to claim second, having started qualifying in the opening group.
Two-time race winners 75 Express are once again right in the mix, with Luca Stolz threatening to claim a maiden pole, but settling for third.
The first of the non-Mercedes is the Absolute Racing Porsche, with Matt Campbell leaping ahead of the Jamec Racing Audi in the final moments.
The first of the class runners is the #93 Wall Racing Lamborghini, with factory pilot Marco Mapelli brilliant on his way to sixth.
Pro-Am pole went the way of Scott Andrews, who after provisionally qualifying second, put the #44 Geyer Valmont Racing Mercedes into eighth on the final grid.
KTM Vantage Racing claimed pole in the Invitational class, whilst the McLarens of Volante Rosso and Method Motorsport claimed class poles as the sole entries in Silver and GT4.
The 2026 Meguiar's Bathurst 12 Hour will begin at 5:45am local time tomorrow morning, and will be broadcast live and ad break free on Foxtel and KAYO Sports.
Starting grid: 2026 Meguiar's Bathurst 12 Hour
#222 Scott Taylor Motorsport Mercedes (Waters/Mostert/Randle)
#77 Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Racing Mercedes (Götz/Aron/Auer)
#75 75 Express Mercedes (Habul/Stolz/Gounon)
#911 Absolute Racing Porsche (Campbell/Picariello/Buus)
#55 Jamec Racing/Team MPC Audi (Schumacher/Haase/Brown)
#93 Wall Racing Lamborghini (Mapelli/Wall/D'Alberto/Denyer)
#46 Team WRT BMW (Farfus/Rossi/Marciello)
#44 Geyer Valmont Racing/Tigani Motorsport Mercedes (Zalloua/Pires/Leitch/Andrews)
#64 HRT Ford Racing Ford (Olsen/Mies/Feeney)
#6 Mercedes-AMG Team Tigani Motorsport (Ojeda/Schiller/Ellis)
#89 Team KRC BMW (Ruan/Oosten/Hesse)
#32 Team WRT BMW (Pepper/van der Linde/Weerts
#9 Hallmarc/Team MPC Audi (Cini/Holdsworth/Fiore)
#101 Q/Team MPC Audi (Quinn/Quinn/Quinn/Quinn)
#95 Optimum Motorsport McLaren (Patterson/Barnicoat/Kirchhöfer)
#193 Ziggo Sport Tempesta by ARGT Ferrari (Wood/Froggatt/Hui/Patrese)
#268 Team BRM Audi (Brooks/Rosser/Peroni/Golding)
#26 Arise Racing GT Ferrari (Evans/Rigon/Serra)
#45 RAM Motorsport/GWR Australia Mercedes (Hobson/O'Keeffe/Walden)
#100 Grove Racing Mercedes (Grove/Allen/Davison)
#79 TSUNAMI RT Porsche (Zelger/Babini/Fontana)
#47 Supabarn Supermarkets/Tigani Motorsport Mercedes (Koundouris/Koundouris/Russell/Bates)
#21 Herberth Motorsport Porsche (Bohn/Renauer/Renauer)
#2 Johor Motorsports Racing JMR Corvette (Sims/Catsburg/Bamber)
#99 Johor Motorsports Racing JMR Corvette (Ibrahim/Ibrahim/Green/Love)
#14 Volante Rosso Motorsport Aston Martin (Fullwood/Hamilton/Pato/Robin)
#27 Heart of Racing by SPS Mercedes (James/Barrichello/De Angelis)
#15 Volante Rosso Motorsport McLaren (Hall/Gray/Flack/Simmenauer)
#50 KTM Vantage Racing KTM (Crampton/Harrison/Wood)
#888 Mercedes-AMG Team GMR Mercedes (Engel/Martin/Grenier)
#86 High Class Racing Porsche (Li/Fjordbach/Boccolacci)
#111 111 Racing IRC (Currie/Donaldson/Stutterd)
#42 Method Motorsport McLaren (Madsen/Kunzle/Aghakhani)
#61 EBM Porsche (Feller/Heinrich/Bachler)*
*Car #61 had initially qualified 15th, but was disqualified post-session for a technical breach
